The word of the
LORD came to Jonah a second time: "Set out for the
great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message
that I will tell you." So Jonah made ready and went to
Nineveh, according to the LORD’s
bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large
city; it took three days to go through
it. Jonah began his journey through the
city, and had gone but a single day’s walk
announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be
destroyed," when the people of Nineveh believed
God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.

When the news reached the
king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside
his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in
the ashes. Then he had this proclaimed throughout
Nineveh, by decree of the king and his
nobles: "Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor
sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.Man and beast shall be
covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; every
man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence
he has in hand. Who knows, God may relent and forgive,
and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we shall not
perish." When God saw by their actions how they turned
from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he
had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it
out.

Psalm Ps 51: 3-4. 12-13. 18-19.

R. (19b) A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;

in the greatness of your compassion
wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt

and of my sin cleanse me.

R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not
spurn.

A clean heart
create for me, O God,

and
a steadfast spirit renew within me.

Cast me not out from your presence,

and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

For you are not pleased with
sacrifices;

should I
offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.

My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;

a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not
spurn.

R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Gospel Lk 11: 29-32.

While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.Just as Jonah became a sign to the
Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this
generation. At the judgmentthe queen of the south will
rise with the men of this generationand she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater
than Solomon here.At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at
the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is
something greater than Jonah here."

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